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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the quote was from 2015, just looked up what the same guy is saying now in 2026:

"Computational thinking has to sit alongside, not displace, the core meta-skills cultivated by a liberal arts approach to education: judgment, communication, collaboration. These are the human capabilities that will keep us valuable and competitive in an AI-augmented economy."— Matt Sigelman, Core Thesis Presentation

Lifeguarding = judgment, communication, collaboration

Office internship in front of a computer = not getting those skills[/quote]

This chart is from Dream School (also by Jeff Selingo) showing that the rate of underemployment is significantly lower for graduates who have completed an internship across most industries. The importance of an internship has only grown since 2016.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyl-bDJNFvB5-rJ8rH7HHHi6sncnimxUc0r5yQ6ZGy0u4dKWz1uB5Kc5o&s

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The issue is that it could be that students who get internships have more connections, so they could have lifeguarded or done nothing and still gotten hired in the end with those connections. It is just so much harder now with AI in the mix to know. So much also depends on what internship and what job.[/quote]

+1 Did the Selingo pusher never take a statistics class?  Correlation is not causation.  (i.e. That students with internships are more likely to be employed after graduation may have something to do with other characteristics of that student that are not related to the internship per se.)[/quote]

You don’t like Selingo’s take on internships. Got it. Please provide your source(s) that support your argument that working the same unskilled job in college (as in high school) is preferred by employers to actual internships? [/quote]

No one made that argument.  Perhaps you can take a basic reading comprehension class along with a rudimentary statistics class.[/quote]

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